Nany Maree
One doctor. Seventeen thousand scripts. Six months. That's one every four minutes, love, and I've sat through plenty of GP appointments.
Medicinal cannabis has been legal since 2016. AHPRA is now looking hard at prescribers like that, and at a nurse practitioner who wrote 31,000 scripts in a year. One pharmacist dispensed 959,000 products in twelve months. In the second half of 2024, 441,000 new patients started on the strongest products. The TGA has issued more than 190 infringement notices since 2020.
I've no quarrel with anyone who's found relief. My quarrel is with the business model.
When regulators start using the words 'profit over patient safety', I'd like to know who was minding the till.
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: ABC News, 2025-05-18
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